α-T-Catenin Is Expressed in Human Brain and Interacts with the Wnt Signaling Pathway but Is Not Responsible for Linkage to Chromosome 10 in Alzheimer's Disease

NeuroMolecular Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-146

  Busby, Victoria ^a   Goossens, Steven ^b   Nowotny, Petra ^c   Hamilton, Gillian ^a   Smemo, Scott ^c   Harold, Denise ^d   Turic, Dragana ^d   Jehu, Luke ^d   Myers, Amanda ^e   Womick, Meredith ^e   Woo, Daniel ^e   Compton, Danielle ^e   Doil, Lisa M ^j   Tacey, Kristina M ^j   Lau, Kit F ^j   Al Saraj, Safa ^a   Killick, Richard ^a   Pickering Brown, Stuart ^a   Moore, Pamela ^d   Hollingworth, Paul ^d   Archer, Nicola ^a   Foy, Catherine ^a   Walter, Sarah ^a   Lendon, Corrine ^f   Iwatsubo, Takeshi ^g   Morris, John C ^c   Norton, Joanne ^c   Mann, David ^h   Janssens, Barbara ^b   Hardy, John ^e   O'Donovan, Michael ^d   Jones, Lesley ^d   Williams, Julie ^d   Holmans, Peter ⁱ   Owen, Michael J ^d   Grupe, Andrew ^j   Powell, John ^a   Van Hengel, Jolanda ^b   Goate, Alison ^c   Van Roy, Frans ^b   Lovestone, Simon ^a   more..

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^j CELERA   (United States)

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Author keywords

T catenin; A ; Age of onset; Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid; APOE; Chromosome 10; CTNNA3; Wn

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CATENIN; ALPHA T CATENIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CHROMOSOME 10; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTNNA3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSACTIVATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA CATENIN; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 2342574965     PISSN: 15351084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/NMM:5:2:133     Document Type: Article

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